Familiar faces twisted by dark magic fade into sight as the shambling corpses of childhood friends stagger from the burned husks of buildings, their moans filled with blame "Why didn't you help us? You were supposed to protect us!"
Eilidh shook her head violently, bringing herself out of her personal nightmare, ever since she'd gone to the cabin and found her friend she'd been seeing that scene when she slept or allowed her thoughts to drift, horribly afraid of what had happened to her village since she'd been forced to leave and wanting desperately to go investigate but not willing to without some backup.
It was that scene that forced itself to the front of her mind when she'd seen the posting for this job to help a village that could so easily been her own, but just like she wasn't willing to take on whatever curse had hit her village alone she also wasn't willing to take this alone, especially since it was posted for a mage much stronger than she herself was, but when she'd gone around the guild asking for someone to back her up she certainly hadn't expected to get the guild master herself as a partner!
Eilidh cast a glance at Leona, unsurprisingly Eilidh saw none of the anxiety that she was feeling in her posture. Though then again, Eilidh would be surprised if it did show, Leona was a leader, and from her own training Eilidh knew that a leader was supposed to be the support that her followers confidences were built on, if she showed any weakness then that weakness would reflect back into the guild causing it to decay from within.
Having enough magical power to flatten the entire forest probably didn't hurt either.
Speaking of leadership, Leona being willing to actually go out on a mission with her guild members like this did a lot to wipe away Eilidh's concerns that Leona was a selfish leader who only led for her own benefit and power. It certainly wiped enough of those concerns away to warrant Eilidh addressing it, and talking with her might take Elidh's mind off of her own personal demons as they searched.
"Guildmistress? I'd like to apologize, when you came to greet me when I first arrived at the guild I was... less than warm towards you. You didn't deserve that."
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